English III - Native American and Early Explorers

His barge crashed on Galveston Island

• Trickster Tales

• Mourning Dove

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Coyote

Accounts providing indirect or second hand knowledge

• Primary Source

• Secondary source

• Second hand account

• Primary Secondary Source

Accounts of real life experiences told by those who experienced them

• Second Hand account

• Secondary Source

• Primary Source

• Trickster Tale

Letters or diaries

• First hand account

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Second Hand account

Stories that feature animal or human characters who engage in deceit, violence and magic

• First hand account

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Trickster Tale

An American History book, for example

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Trickster Tale

• Cabeza de Vaca

La Relacion is an example of this type of source

• Secondary Source

• Second Hand account

• Primary Source

• Cabeza de Vaca's diary

An autobiography

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Trickster Tale

A trickster tale that demonstrates the Native Americans' belief of learning from the harmony of nature.

• Coyote and the Buffalo

• La Relacion

• Trickster Tale

• Lesson of the Birds

Spaniards befriended the Karankawa Indians on the shores of Galveston, TX. Only four men survive and Cabeza de Vaca writes "The Report" to the king of Spain.

• Coyote and the Buffalo

• La Relacion

• Trickster Tale

• Lesson of the Birds